Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error, vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error. In Error from Fulton Superior Court at the July Term 1913. Brief of Evidence 1913. (1913, 1914,)
Author: Leo Frank Trial
Keywords: Leo Frank; Leo Frank Trial; Leo Frank Case; Leo M. Frank; Lucille Frank; Hugh Dorsey; Reuben Arnold; Luther Rosser; Frank Hooper; Judge Leonard Roan; Mary Phagan
Year: 1913
Language: English
Collection: opensource
Notes: From the Fulton County Superior Court of Atlanta and Georgia Supreme Court Archives
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Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error, vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error. In Error from Fulton Superior Court at the July Term 1913. Brief of Evidence 1913.
Defenders of Leo Frank have long held the position that without the testimony of Jim Conley, there never would have been a conviction for Leo Frank, but the truth is, it was Monteen Stover who sparked the chain of events, that led to Leo Frank's astonishing trial admission on August 18, 1913, one that ultimately sealed his fate and ensured an easy conviction.
How to Solve the Mary Phagan Murder Mystery
Pay special attention to State's Exhibit B (created on Monday Morning, April 28, 1913) regarding when Leo Frank formerly stated Mary Phagan entered his office on April 26, 1913, between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm, maybe 12:07 pm; Monteen Stover's Testimony about finding Leo Frank's office empty on April 26, 1913, between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm; and Leo Frank's August 18, 1913, response to Monteen Stover's testimony, explaining why his office was empty on April 26, 1913, between 12:05 pm and 12:10 pm, with an unconscious bathroom visit to the metal room.
The Leo Frank Virtual Murder Confession, August 18, 1913.
It was on August 18th 1913, Leo Frank mounted the witness stand at 2:15PM at his trial, and would counter the specific testimony given by Monteen Stover (about Leo Frank not being in his office from 12:05pm to 12:10pm), with a most shocking, mind boggling blunder, an admission inescapably entrapping himself and considered to be the equivalent to a murder confession.
Leo Frank's Retort About the Inconsistency in his Murder Alibi:
Now gentlemen [of the Jury], to the best of my recollection from the time the whistle blew for twelve o’clock [noon on Saturday, April 26, 1913] until after a quarter to one [12:46 p.m.] when I went up stairs [to the fourth floor] and spoke to Arthur White and Harry Denham, to the best of my recollection, I did not stir out of the inner office [located at the front of the second floor]; but it is possible that in order to answer a call of nature or to urinate I may have gone to the toilet [in the metal room located at the rear of the second floor]. Those are things that a man does unconsciously and cannot tell how many times nor when he does it (Leo Frank Trial Statement, August 18, Brief of Evidence, 1913).
The significance of Leo Frank's newfangled bathroom admission, was that the only set of bathrooms on the second floor, were located inside the metal room (Defendant's exhibit 61 and State's Exhibit A).
What made Leo Frank's August 18, 1913, newfangled bathroom admission so ineluctably self-incriminating, was that on August 4, 1913, Jim Conley testified he had originally found Mary Phagan dead in the bathroom area of the metal room, after Leo Frank admitted assaulting her.
Leo Frank's Racist Intrigue Botched
Leo Frank's defenders often invoke anti-Semitism, blaming it as the cause of Leo Frank's conviction, but it's really nothing more than a racist smoke screen to hide a most grotesque racist intrigue formulated by Leo Frank. The racist subplot to frame the murder of Mary Phagan on the Negro Nightwatchman was uncovered with Defendant's Exhibit A, showing Newt Lee's forged time card altered by Leo Frank. The police found a bloody shirt at Newt Lee's shack planted by Leo Frank's criminal cronies and it is what led to the collapse of Leo Frank's botched and racist railroading of Newt Lee. When Leo Frank's failed attempt to turn Newt Lee into a patsy was uncovered, Leo Frank changed course and tried to pin the crime on Jim Conley his accomplice-after-the-fact.
State's Exhibit J
The Leo Frank Defense long held that the police coerced State's Exhibit J from Minola McKnight, but when considering this position, one should ask themselves who was Leo Frank saving his kisses for (State's Exhibit J) and why did Leo Frank so thoughtfully buy his wife a box of chocolates at Jacob's pharmacy on Saturday Evening, April 26, 1913 (State's Exhibit B).
Appeals
After the conviction of Leo Frank, filed appeals and more information was revealed about his sexual appetite. A young girl came forward that Leo Frank bite her so hard on the area between the thy and vagina, she was left permanently scarified.
Leo Frank's Georgia Supreme Court File:
Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court File. http://archive.org/details/leo-frank-georgia-supreme-court-case-records-1913-1914
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More excellent books and reading on the subject include:
0. The Leo Frank Case (Mary Phagan) Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery 1913 - The first neutral book written on the subject. Very interesting read.
1. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan by Mary Phagan Kean (Available here on www.Archive.org). Written by Mary Phagan Kean, the great grand niece of Mary Phagan. A neutral account of the events surrounding the trial of Leo Frank. The Murder of Little Mary Phagan is well worth reading and it is a refreshing change from the endless number of Jewish and contemporary books turning the Leo Frank case into a neurotic race obsessed tabloid controversy.
2. American State Trials, volume X (1918) by John Lawson (Available here on www.Archive.org) Tends to be biased in favor of Leo Frank and his legal defense team, this document provides an abridged version of the Brief of Evidence, leaving out some important things said and details when it republishes parts of the trial testimony. Be sure to read the closing arguments of Luther Zeigler Rosser, Reuben Rose Arnold, Frank Arthur Hooper and Hugh Manson Dorsey. For a more complete version of the Leo M. Frank trial testimony, read the 1913 murder trial brief of evidence found on www.archive.org and you can see what was left out.
3. Argument of Hugh M. Dorsey in the Trial of Leo Frank (Available here on www.archive.org). Some but not all of the 9 hours of arguments given to the Jury at the end of the Leo Frank trial. Only 18 Libraries in the world have copies of this books. This is an excellent book and required reading to see how Dorsey in sales vernacular 'closed' a Jury of 12 men and Judge Roan.
4. Leo M. Frank, Plaintiff in Error, vs. State of Georgia, Defendant in Error. In Error from Fulton Superior Court at the July Term 1913, Brief of Evidence. Extremely rare, only 1 copy exists, and it is at the Georgia State Archive. (available on archive.org)
Three Major Atlanta Dailies: The Atlanta Constitution, The Atlanta Journal, The Atlanta Georgian (Hearst's Tabloid Yellow Journalism), The most relevant issues center around April 28th to August 27th 1913.
5. Atlanta Constitution Newspaper: The Murder of Mary Phagan, Coroner's Inquest, Grand Jury, Investigation, Trail, Appeals, Shanking and Lynching of Leo Frank Case in the Atlanta Constitution Newspaper from 1913 to 1915. http://archive.org/details/LeoFrankCaseInTheAtlantaConstitutionNewspaper1913To1915
6. The Atlanta Georgian newspaper covering the Leo Frank Case from April though August, 1913. http://archive.org/details/AtlantaGeorgianNewspaperAprilToAugust1913
7. The Atlanta Journal Newspaper, April, 28, 1913, through till the end of August, 1913, pertaining to the Leo Frank Case: http://archive.org/details/AtlantaJournalApril281913toAugust311913
Leo Frank confirms he might have been in the bathroom at the time Monteen Stover said his office was empty: See the Atlanta Constitution, Monday, March 9, 1914, Leo Frank Jailhouse Interview
Watson's Magazine
8. Tom Watson's Jeffersonian and Watson's Magazine: Watson's Magazine, January 1915, Watson's Magazine, March 1915; Watson's Magazine, August 1915, Watson's Magazine, September 1915, and Watson's Magazine, October of 1915. (Available here on www.Archive.org). Tom Watson's best work on the Leo M. Frank case was published in September 1915. Watson's five works written collectively on the Leo M. Frank topic, provide logical arguments confirming the guilt of Leo M. Frank with superb reasoning.
These five works are absolutely required reading for anyone interested in the Leo M. Frank Case. Tom Watson's magazine publications surged from 30,000 to 100,000 copies, when it was announced he would be writing on the Leo Frank case. These magazines are extremely rare and very difficult to find. However they have been scanned and are available on www.Archive.org
8.1. The Leo Frank Case By Tom Watson (January 1915) Watson's Magazine Volume 20 No. 3. See page 139 for the Leo Frank Case. Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga., Digital Source Archive.org
8.2. The Full Review of the Leo Frank Case By Tom Watson (March 1915) Volume 20. No. 5. See page 235 for 'A Full Review of the Leo Frank Case'. Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga., Digital Source Archive.org
8.3. The Celebrated Case of The State of Georgia vs. Leo Frank By Tom Watson (August 1915) Volumne 21, No 4. See page 182 for 'The Celebrated Case of the State of Georgia vs. Leo Frank". Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga., Digital Source Archive.org
8.4. The Official Record in the Case of Leo Frank, Jew Pervert By Tom Watson (September 1915) Volume 21. No. 5. See page 251 for 'The Official Record in the Case of Leo Frank, Jew Pervert'. Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga., Digital Source Archive.org
8.5. The Rich Jews Indict a State! The Whole South Traduced in the Matter of Leo Frank By Tom Watson (October 1915) Volume 21. No. 6. See page 301. Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga., Digital Source Archive.org
Though Tom Watson is considered a controversial figure by some, when one puts the rhetoric aside, his writings on the Leo Frank case are quite lucid, making a very complex trial easy to understand.
Tom Watson's Jeffersonian Newspaper
9. The Tom E. Watson Digital Papers Archive, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/watson
Tom W. Brown, Grandson of Thomas Edward Watson
10. Notes on the Case of Leo M. Frank, By Tom Watson Brown, Emery University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1982.
Leo Frank Case Research Archive and Library of Primary Sources:
11. The Leo Frank Archive: http://www.LeoFrank.org
Georgia Supreme Court Documents on Leo Frank:
12. Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Records (1,800 pages). http://archive.org/details/leo-frank-georgia-supreme-court-case-records-1913-1914
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